When Celine Song wrote the script for her debut feature film, “Past Lives,” she was inspired by a conversation she had at a New York bar with her husband and her childhood sweetheart, who was visiting

Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and the ubiquitous Pedro Pascal star in "Materialists," the latest from Celine Song, the director who made "Past Lives."

Celine Song, the writer and director of the A24 films “Past Lives” and “Materialists,” is developing a drama series at HBO. Titled “Damage,” the series is set in the world of e-sports. Song will write and executive produce the project,

Celine Song has found her next project, “Damage,” a series she’s currently developing for HBO set in the world of competitive E-Sports.

Materialists follows a matchmaker named Lucy (Dakota Johnson) as she meets Harry (Pedro Pascal), a rich man who is working to woo her, and runs into John (Chris Evans), a very important person from her past. What follows is a deep and romantic tale about the materialistic things we desire and how they compete with our romantic and human instincts.

The characters in the romantic comedy Materialists, Celine Song's follow-up to Past Lives, see the dating pool in terms of the "market" – people are evaluated by how "competitive" they are and marriage is treated like an equation to be solved.

We spoke with Materialists writer/director Celine Song about the movie's unexpected genre influences, those surprising bookends, that final shot, and more.

Steeped in classic rom-com visuals and chemistry so thick you could cut it with a knife, fans have nothing bad to say about Materialists